"My Stomach muscles are too strong" Imogen Thomas

Anyone who thinks a c-section is the easy option has never had major abdominal surgery. It's a struggle to do anything for days and weeks afterwards, and I'm only talking about getting yourself out of bed to go to the bathroom and get back into bed. Absolutely exhausting - you don't realise how much you need your abs to move about until you can't use them. I can't even imagine having a baby to look after as well as recovering from surgery.

Must say I have never heard of having too strong stomach muscles. That's a new one on me.

It's not that her stomach muscles are too strong for her to deliver a baby; it's that her particular baby is in the wrong position for a natural birth and they can't turn it from the outside because of her stomach muscles.

Anyone who thinks a c-section is the easy option has never had major abdominal surgery. It's a struggle to do anything for days and weeks afterwards, and I'm only talking about getting yourself out of bed to go to the bathroom and get back into bed. Absolutely exhausting - you don't realise how much you need your abs to move about until you can't use them. I can't even imagine having a baby to look after as well as recovering from surgery.

I totally agree, my first son was an emergency c-section as he was undiagnosed breech. Couldnt drive or do anything for weeks and as a result struggled to bond with him and developed PND. With my 2nd son i was asked if i wanted to try a vaginal birth and told i would have to be closely monitored in case of rupturing, i really wanted to avoid another c-section. I was in labour for 25hrs and had to have the ventouse but still preferred that birth to the c-section!

Anyone who thinks a c-section is the easy option has never had major abdominal surgery. It's a struggle to do anything for days and weeks afterwards, and I'm only talking about getting yourself out of bed to go to the bathroom and get back into bed. Absolutely exhausting - you don't realise how much you need your abs to move about until you can't use them. I can't even imagine having a baby to look after as well as recovering from surgery.

If your baby is breech, you have to have a C-section.
Standard practice in the NHS these days.

I gave birth to twins naturally and one was a breech. Maybe it is standard practice nowadays but unless there is something life threatening then there is no need for a c-section.
I had a cyst removed on my scalp back in November and I am still getting pain from it as I think when the doctor cut into the cyst they severed a nerve. To be honest I had less discomfort giving birth afterwards than I have had since I had the cyst removed from my scalp.
Having never had a c-section I should imagine there would be a lot of discomfort afterwards and like what had happened with my scalp a nerve being severed the same i would persume could happen with having a section?

I gave birth to twins naturally and one was a breech. Maybe it is standard practice nowadays but unless there is something life threatening then there is no need for a c-section.
I had a cyst removed on my scalp back in November and I am still getting pain from it as I think when the doctor cut into the cyst they severed a nerve. To be honest I had less discomfort giving birth afterwards than I have had since I had the cyst removed from my scalp.
Having never had a c-section I should imagine there would be a lot of discomfort afterwards and like what had happened with my scalp a nerve being severed the same i would persume could happen with having a section?

My daughter's baby's due this week, and she's been told by her midwife that c-sections are standard practice these days, for breech presentations so I'm speaking from her own experience.

My daughter's baby's due this week, and she's been told by her midwife that c-sections are standard practice these days, for breech presentations so I'm speaking from her own experience.

Yes I have heard that. I am talking twenty six years ago though I wanted a natural birth I had to have an epidural which I really did not want but it was just in case anything went wrong.
A c-section just never appealed to me and I did state that I wanted to have a natural birth. I just never fancied having my stomach cut open as a c-section is a major operation and I do feel that too many of these operations are performed when they don't really need to be. that's just my opinion.
Hope everything goes well for your daughter.

Yes I have heard that. I am talking twenty six years ago though I wanted a natural birth I had to have an epidural which I really did not want but it was just in case anything went wrong.
A c-section just never appealed to me and I did state that I wanted to have a natural birth. I just never fancied having my stomach cut open as a c-section is a major operation and I do feel that too many of these operations are performed when they don't really need to be. that's just my opinion.
Hope everything goes well for your daughter.

I had a breech birth 38 years ago and had no choice but to give birth normally as it wasn't standard in those days to give a caesarian for a breech. It's just as well my daughter wasn't a huge baby. I was a breech birth too in 1955 - again, no caesarians then.

I had a breech birth 38 years ago and had no choice but to give birth normally as it wasn't standard in those days to give a caesarian for a breech. It's just as well my daughter wasn't a huge baby. I was a breech birth too in 1955 - again, no caesarians then.

That aint true, Caesarians were in fact named after Caesar.. which is how he was born. My mother also had one in 1964

I dont know of anybody too posh to push... and lets face it whats posh about a huge scar and damaged tissue. Its a terrible phrase and cant think why or who it was invented for.

To answer question I had two emergency c-sections. Not through choice, as I dont see how anybody would makie a choice like that, or be allowed to as its such a drain on the NHS

That's why I can't understand when you hear about people choosing an elective c-section yours was for emergency like you say not through choice.
As I have had back trouble since having had my pregnancy twenty six years ago and it seems to be down to having weak muscles in my stomach.
I shudder to imagine what I would have been like if they had had to do a c-section and cut through some tummy muscles my back probably would be a whole lot worse.
Thats what I can't understand about this thread how you can have such strong tummy muscles that you can't give birth natural. I don't half envy this woman having strong tummy muscles as she won't have any back trouble.

Thats what I can't understand about this thread how you can have such strong tummy muscles that you can't give birth natural. I don't half envy this woman having strong tummy muscles as she won't have any back trouble.

I dont think its got anything to do with the stomach muscles, thats just the way Imogen interprets it cause shes thick. I think the real reason will be as said the baby is breech